Amazon, which purchased Whole Foods last year, is offering its Prime members an additional 10% off sale items when they shop at Whole Foods.
The additional discount will apply to hundreds of products throughout the stores. To get the discount, Prime members will have to scan the Whole Foods app at checkout, after signing into the app with their Prime membership.
The new discounts will start in Florida and expand nationwide later this summer.
Earlier this year, the companies launched free two-hour delivery on Whole Foods groceries in 10 test cities, through Amazon's Prime Now service. Amazon expects to expand that offering later this year. Eligible Prime members also receive 5% back on Whole Foods purchases when using the Amazon Prime Visa card.
相於:亚马逊让主要會員成为不可或缺的——这就是它的功能。
新的折扣将从佛罗里达州开始，不久，今年夏天也將在全国推广。
今年早些时候，通过亚马逊Prime Now服务，这些公司在10个测试城市推出了免费的两小时全食品外卖服务。亚马逊预计将在今年扩大这一服务。在使用Amazon Prime Visa卡时，符合资格的主要会员还可以获得5%的全食品购买。
Amazon cut prices at Whole Foods for all customers once it completed its purchase of the chain in August, and announced another round of price cuts in November.
Facebook says it deleted or added warnings to about 29 million posts that broke its rules on hate speech, graphic violence, terrorism and sex, over the first three months of the year.
For example, the algorithms only flagged 38% of identified hate speech posts over the period, meaning 62% were only addressed because users had reported them.
By contrast, the firm said its tools spotted 99.5% of detected propaganda posted in support of Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and other affiliated groups, leaving only 0.5% to the public.
The figures also reveal that Facebook believes users were more likely to have experienced graphic violence and adult nudity via its service over the January-to-March quarter than the prior three months.
Facebook broke down banned content into several categories:
graphic violence
adult nudity and sexual content
spam
hate speech
fake accounts
On the latter, the company estimates about 3% to 4% of all active users on Facebook are fake, and said it had taken 583 million fake accounts down between January and March.
The figures indicate graphic violence spiked massively - up 183% between each of the two time periods in the report.
It said that a mix of better detection technology and an escalation in the Syrian conflict might account for this.
這些數字表明，在報告的兩次時間內，暴力事件激增了183%。
這可能牽涉到，因為探測技術變的更好及和敘利亞衝突的升級。
A total of 1.9 million pieces of extremist content were removed between January and March, a 73% rise on the previous quarter.
That will make promising reading for governments, particularly in the US and UK, which have called on the company to stop the spread of material from groups such as Islamic State.
"They're taking the right steps to clearly define what is and what is not protected speech on their platform," said Brandie Nonnecke, from University of California, Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society.
But, she added: "Facebook has a huge job on its hands."
The complexity of that job emerges when considering hate speech, a category much more difficult to control via automation.
The firm tackled 2.5 million examples in the most recent period, up 56% on the October-to-December months.
“從壁櫥裡尖叫出來”
如何用機器人判斷仇恨言論時，這種工作的複雜性就會顯現出來，而這一類別在自動化中更難控制。
該公司在最近一段時間內處理了250萬例，在10月至12月期間增長了56%。
Human moderators were involved in dealing with the bulk of these, but even they faced problems deciding what should stay and what should be deleted.
"There's nuance, there's context that technology just can't do yet," said Alex Schultz, the company's head of data analytics.
人類版主處理這些大部分的問題，但即使是他們也面臨著決定應該留下什麼以及應該刪除哪些內容的問題。
該公司的資料分析主管Alex Schultz表示:“有細微差別，但技術目前還不能做到這一點。”
"So, in those cases we lean a lot still on our review team, which makes a final decision on what needs to come down."
To demonstrate this, Mr Schultz said words that would be considered slurs if used as part of a homophobic attack had different meaning when used by gay people themselves. So, deleting all posts using a certain term would be the wrong choice.
"But how do you know I'm gay if you're reviewing my profile?" he asked.
"For me, I put it at the top of the profile - I've come screaming out of the closet, I am very openly gay.
"But that isn't true of everyone, and we can't know that. This is a very difficult problem."
他問道:“你怎麼知道我是同性戀呢?”
“對我來說，我把它放在了最重要的位置——我尖叫著從壁櫥裡出來，我是非常公開的同性戀。”
但這不是每個人都能做到的，我們也不可能知道。這是一個非常困難的問題。
Staggering samples
In an attempt to discover what it may have missed, the social network carried out random sampling.
It took an unspecified number of posts that had been viewed on Facebook, and made a note of how often a piece of content was in violation of its policies.
The results were troubling.
驚人的樣品
為了發現它可能遺漏了什麼，社交網路進行了隨機抽樣。
該公司在Facebook上發佈了不明確數量的貼文，並記錄了一段內容違反其政策的頻率。
結果是令人不安的。
According to the sample, as many as 27 posts in every 10,000 contained some form of graphic violence. Given the 1.5 billion daily users of the service, that could means tens of millions of violent posts go unchecked every day.
The same technique estimated between seven to nine posts in every 10,000 contained adult nudity or sexual content.
The amount of terrorism-related material was too small to sample in this way, Mr Schultz said. And on hate speech, he said, the company lacked any "reliable data" on total volume.
"We can't currently measure how prevalent hate speech violations were on Facebook, because when we're asking our representatives to go and look, 'Is this hate speech, is this not?', it is very difficult to score that.
"We're making mistakes and we're trying to get better at measuring it."
But Dottie Lux, an event organiser in San Francisco, who campaigns against Facebook's perceived failure to combat the targeting of minority groups, said difficulty was no excuse.
“特權工資”
但是， San Francisco的活動組織者Dottie Lux表示，困難並不是藉口。其組織反對Facebook在打擊少數群體目標方面的失敗。
"I'm running out of sympathy for 'This is really hard,' because it's really not new," she said.
"They find time to release dating apps and they find time to attach to my bank account, but they don't find time to figure out who their users are."
Ms Lux, who described herself to me as a "gay Jewish lady with a gay Jewish perspective", said relying on user reports to police hate speech was fundamentally flawed because it could be abused to silence others.
"You just give people with maliciousintent the ability to act maliciously," she said.
Facebook remains coy about the make-up of its human moderation team.
It said it did try to make sure US-based workers handled incidents where an understanding of American culture was beneficial - likewise for incidents in other countries.
But Ms Lux feels the company needs to be more open.
"If you are hiring people who don't exist in certain social circles, different cultures, it's not going to be effective," she said.
During a commencement address to Duke University Sunday, Apple CEO Tim Cook used some well-known platitudes, telling the students to make brave choices, rise to challenges and be unafraid to break with conventional wisdom.
He also appeared take yet another jab at Facebook and its handling of user data.
"We reject the excuse that getting the most out of technology means trading away your right to privacy," Cook said. "So we choose a different path, collecting as little of your data as possible, being thoughtful and respectful when it's in our care because we know it belongs to you."
The comment echoed Cook's earlier criticism of Facebook, which has endured months of criticism after it was revealed that a political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, was able to harvest data for nearly 90 million Facebook users.
"I wouldn't be in this situation," Cook told reporters from Recode and MSNBC in March.
"The truth is, we could make a ton of money if we monetized our customer — if our customer was our product," he said. "We've elected not to do that."
Cook also called for increased regulation of social media and questioned whether Facebook should monetize user data on its free platforms by selling targeted ads.
"You know, I find that argument, that if you're not paying that somehow we can't care about you, to be extremely glib. And not at all aligned with the truth," Zuckerberg told Vox.
Cook on Sunday again aimed to paint Apple's(AAPL) handling of user data in stark contrast with Facebook's. He credited Apple co-founder Steve Jobs with instilling within the company the drive to do things better.
"In every way at every turn, the question we ask ourselves is not, 'What can we do?', but 'What should we do?" Cook said. "Because Steve taught us that's how change happens, and from him I learned to never be content with the way that things are."
Apple has had a few tangles with privacy issues as well.
The company caught flack when it announced in February a plan to move iCloud accounts registered in mainland China to state-run Chinese servers. Apple made the move after it unsuccessfully fought to be exempt from a controversial new cybersecurity law in the Asian nation, but the decision alarmed privacy advocates.
And in 2014, hackers were able to steal nude photos from celebrities' iCloud accounts.
After that, Apple committed to increased transparency, and the company encrypted iPhones to make it more difficult for anyone — even authorities — to get their hands on data.
Cook, who often weighs in on social issues, also used his platform at Duke University to praise the "fearless" women who have spoken out in the #MeToo movement, the Parkland student advocating for tighter gun control, and people who "fight for the rights of immigrants."
— CNN's Sherisse Pham, David Goldman and Seth Fiegerman contributed to this report.
China has welcomed a pledge from Donald Trump to help save ZTE, one of China's biggest telecoms companies.
The firm has suspended operations after the US last month banned American companies from selling it components. ZTE had admitted to making illegal shipments to Iran and North Korea.
But Mr Trump has now tweeted he will work with President Xi to help ZTE get "back into business fast", saying too many jobs in China were at risk.
"We greatly appreciate the positive position of the US on the ZTE issue and are in close communication with the US on the details of the issue," foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said.
US commentators say the tone of the tweet is a dramatic shift for Mr Trump, who has consistently accused China of stealing US jobs.
The concession to Beijing comes ahead of high-level trade talks later this week in Washington aimed at resolving an escalating trade dispute between the world's two largest economies.
Beijing has made resolving the situation with ZTE, which employs about 80,000 people, one of its demands for striking a broader trade agreement with with US.
ZTE was fined $1.1bn (£800m) after admitting, in March 2017, to violating US sanctions by illegally shipping American technology to Iran and North Korea.
The current export ban - which lasts seven years - was imposed last month after the company allegedly failed to comply with its agreement.
It was accused of lying about the punishment of employees involved in skirting the sanctions.
中興做錯了什麼?
2017年3月,中興通訊被罰款11億美元,違反美國制裁非法運輸伊朗和北韓的美國技術。
目前的出口禁令(維持7年)是在上個月公司據稱未能遵守協議的條件。
該公司被指控對參與員工的實際處罰撒謊。
US companies provide at least a quarter of the components used in ZTE's equipment, which includes smartphones and telecommunications network equipment.
ZTE spent more than $2.3bn on imports from about 200 US companies last year.
Douglas Jacobson, a lawyer in Washington DC who represents some of ZTE's suppliers, said: "This is a fascinating development in a highly unusual case that has gone from a sanctions and export control case to a geopolitical one.
"There's no legal mechanism for this. How this will play out remains to be seen. They are not simply going to be able to resume business as usual."
